About this journal

Brings together and fosters interaction among academic and industrial communities to promote further research

Publishes original research papers, tutorials, reviews, case studies, and correspondences from the research, development, and standardization communities

Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications disseminates state-of-the-art research and development results to facilitate effective deployment of P2P networking and applications. The journal brings together and fosters interaction among academic and industrial communities to promote further research that leads to new P2P applications and services.

This journal not only addresses research topics related to networking and communications theory, but also considers the standardization, economic, and engineering aspects of P2P technologies and their impact on software engineering, computer engineering, networked communication, and security. It includes papers addressing system, application, and service issues.

Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications publishes original research papers, tutorials, reviews, case studies, and correspondences from the research, development, and standardization communities.

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Aims and Scope

Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications (P2PNA) has received significant attention from both academia and industry in recent years. The aim of the Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications journal is to disseminate state-of-the-art research and development results in this rapidly growing research area, to facilitate the deployment of P2P networking and applications, and to bring together the academic and industry communities, with the goal of fostering interaction to promote further research interests and activities, thus enabling new P2P applications and services. The journal not only addresses research topics related to networking and communications theory, but also considers the standardization, economic, and engineering aspects of P2P technologies, and their impacts on software engineering, computer engineering, networked communication, and security.

Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications is committed to the timely publication of high-quality, original papers that advance the cutting-edge research in the area of peer-to-peer networking, services, and applications. The journal serves as a forum for tackling the technical problems arising from both file sharing and media streaming applications. It also includes state-of-the-art technologies in the P2P security domain.

Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications publishes regular papers, tutorials and review papers, case studies, and correspondence from the research, development, and standardization communities. Papers addressing system, application, and service issues are encouraged. The Journal covers all subject areas of peer-to-peer networking and applications including, but not limited to:

P2P ad hoc and sensor networks

P2P application and services

P2P content access and distribution

P2P economics

P2P enabled technologies

P2P file sharing

P2P media streaming

P2P multicasting and multimedia delivery

P2P overlay networks

P2P security issues

P2P wireless and mobile networks

Architectures and protocols

Convergence/co-existence of P2P and other networks

Data and index structures

Modeling, performance and robustness

QoS

Replication and load-balancing strategies

Semantic routing and search

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